TEXAS comes up Big at Olympics

[eflow24]

I am not sure if any of you saw this, but I am very proud of the Longhorns in Beijing. I think the following paragraph says it all.

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[Ramathorn]

Wow. Good to hear.

 

[notanative]

As previously noted

 

[Bevo Incognito]

Total Gold Medals won at 2008 Beijing Olympics

1. China 51

2. United States 36

3. Russia 23

4. Great Britain 19

5. Germany 16

6. Australia 14

7. South Korea 13

8. The University of Texas 10

9. Japan 9

10. Italy 8


Total Medals won at 2008 Beijing Olympics

1. United States 110

2. China 100

3. Russia 72

4. Great Britain 47

5. Australia 46

6. Germany 41

7. France 40

8. South Korea 31

9. Italy 28

10. Ukraine 27

11. Japan 25

12. Cuba 24

13. Belarus 19

14. Spain 18

15. Canada 18

16. Netherlands 16

17. Brazil 15

18. The University of Texas 14

19. Kenya 14

20. Kazakhstan 13

21. Jamaica 11

22. Poland 10

23. Hungary 10

24. Norway 10

25. New Zealand 10

 

[Bill in Sinton]

 

[Eating Club]

 

[halsteadfrost]

Anyone know how UT stacked up against Michigan in the swimming medals? Just curious...

 

[accuratehorn]

I approve of this modified medal count ranking! Great thread.

 

[Handler XIII]

 

[NoOne]

It's worth noting that we won more medals than any other school in Athens: UT in Athens. And we won even more medals in Sydney, so we may have won the most there as well: UT_all_time_medals.

We didn't win quite as many in Beijing, but if you go athletic sites of the Forbes top 10 olympic schools and search for their medal counts, you'll see that we won more gold medals than just about any other school, including Stanford (stanford_in_beijing), who had the most athletes at the games (more than twice what we had).

We won more gold medals than USC, Arizona, UCLA, Florida, and pretty much anyone else in the top 10 list that I could find. If Michigan counts Phelps they may have been the only school to win more golds.

Edit: If this list is exhaustive, then the most Michigan did is tie us. I'll go ahead and proclaim that we won more gold medals than any other US university in Beijing, except Phelps-igan (with whom we're tied), until someone proves me wrong.

 

[notanative]

If I'm not mistaken, our total does not include the medals won by K. Coventry.

 

[NoOne]

and it probably shouldn't. she's an auburn alum.

 

[LongestHorn]

No. 8 University of Texas
2008 Olympians: 22

 

[kjgirl]

Since Phelps did not compete at Michigan, then should his medals count? If they count his because he is a volunteer coach then UT should count Coventrys.

 

[Laphroaig10]

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[Ramathorn]

laphroaig, you're so lame. Thanks for the defensive coordinator....again. Who's your DC now?

I know you goto grad school here, so at least pretend to be a fan.

 

[atxbaby]

Zimbabwe prez gives Kirsty Coventry $100,000 cash

Doesn't really have anything to do with our medal count. Just thought it was cool to see someone associated with UT athletics get a briefcase full of cold hard cash.

 

[Laphroaig10]

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[homer]

auburn is a pretty useless university in academic sense. it might as well rename itself an athletic institution. might be more apt.


SEC! SEC! SEC!

 

[homer]

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[Ramathorn]

homer, other than Vanderbilt, is there an sec university that isn't useless academically?


Muschamp was well thought of before Auburn. I guess Paul Rhoads will be our next DC. Interesting. I should learn more about him.

 

[toucan82]

suck it, new zealand!!!

 

[swc.lives.on]

I guess that explains why I never lettered in track and field.